Apud Corn. ab Egmond. 1644 - B00NCESSQ4 In Latin. 1644 Apud Corn. ab Egmond. (Cologne, Germany), 2 1/4 x 3 5/8 inches tall x 1 1/4 inches thick, near-miniature, full period vellum binding, all page edges red, engraved title page with full-page engraving of Kempis on verso, [32], 534, [9] pp., complete. The vellum binding is characteristically grubby, edgeworn and chipped, especially lower backstrip. Lower band is broken, but the binding is quite solid. 1/2-inch closed tear to bottom of front pastedown. Eighteenth century prior owner names, one inked out, to front free-endpaper. Title page/frontispiece leaf is only attached to the text block at the upper half of the hinge, and is lacking a 1 3/8-inch diagonal chip to lower tip, which clips the lower edge of the title page engraving but does not interfere with the frontispiece overleaf. Very light soiling to the lower margin of most pages in the first half of the book. Light staining to fore margin of last dozen or so pages of the book, and the last printed page - the last page of the end table of contents - was crumpled to the fore-margin, with creasing to the right side of the page. Lacks blank rear free-endpaper, but is otherwise complete. Otherwise, apart from a small occasional instance of soiling or faint foxing, a very good copy of a scarce seventeenth century edition of the Imitation, among the first editions edited by Jacob Merlo Horstius and printed during his lifetime (he died the year this edition appeared). OCLC (No. 460738049, 247273204, 561539785) records only 5 copies worldwide, none in North America - two in
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Amsterdam - Amstelodami: Apud Ioannem Ianssonium - Johannes Janssonius, 1644 [xvi], 532, [68] pages + 3 folding maps. 5 full page illustrations. Engraved title page which has been trimmed along the upper edge. Pages 265-288 are detached and are worn at the edges. There are some tears to the maps. Ink underling and a few notes, also some ink stains. In the original full vellum which has been embossed with the name tot he front board - Henricus - sadly the surname has been scratched out. On the rear board is the date - Anno 1653. There is also a coat of arms in gilt to the fornt and rear boards.Titled in faded ink to the spine. The vellum is browned and darkened and the spine is creased. One name scratched to the front board and another in ink to the rear. Ink owners' names of the Petavel family to the front end papers and also Abraham Petavel of Neuchatel has written his name into the engraved image of the title page, but very neatly. Two front free end papers have been removed.. Full vellum. Fair.

Franciscum Hegerum, Lugd. Batavor., 1644. Editio Nova et Aucta. 24mo . Engraved frontespice , viii, 666 pp. Alegorical engraved title . Collection of 18 texts of diverse authors (medicins, moralists, linquists, philosophers, ) treating on various subjects as: the art of swimming; praise of the donkey ; the death of pies ; praise of the shadow ; a treatise of the grammatical war ; a homage to fever ; a praise of the elephant ; the smile of Democritus ; etc Tear with lack of text on the preface, with loss of about 7 lines of text on one side, and about 9 lines of text on the other side. Owner's small name on the top of the engraved title page . Handwritten title on the top of the spine. Age soiled vellum , but in good condition, with both the spine and the covers having good, unworn, and unbumped edges [Attributes: Hard Cover]